{"id":1328,"date":"2011-10-10T09:54:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T08:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2011-10-10T09:54:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T08:54:20","slug":"stenness-reveals-new-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/2011\/10\/stenness-reveals-new-archaeology\/","title":{"rendered":"Stenness reveals new archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orkney Archaeologists may have discovered one of the largest stone circles in Britain.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ring_brodgar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37 \" title=\"Ring of Brodgar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ring_brodgar-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ring of Brodgar\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ring_brodgar-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ring_brodgar.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large stone circle may lay under the waters of the Loch of Stenness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A report in the New Scotsman on 9th October announced findings from Seismic images taken in the Loch of Stenness, which appear to show a large circular feature in the water south of the <a title=\"More about the Ring of Brodgar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/2010\/08\/ring-of-brodgar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ring of Brodgar.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists are now planning to send a diving team into the area to investigate the findings.<\/p>\n<p>Similar in size to the Ring of Brodgar, which to date is the third largest in Britain, Archaeologists are excited about discovering a much earlier structure.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"New Scotsman - Orkney new stone circle article\" href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/scotland\/History-uncovered-beneath-the-waves.6850143.jp\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read more&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Findings from Seismic images taken in the Loch of Stenness appear to show a large circular feature in the water south of the Ring of Brodgar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1135],"tags":[1816,347,2711,2713,2717,2718,23,59,2193,2710,1820,2712],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-archaeology","tag-archaeologists","tag-caption","tag-circular-feature","tag-diving-team","tag-loch-of-stenness","tag-new-archaeology","tag-orkney","tag-ring-of-brodgar","tag-scotsman","tag-seismic-images","tag-stone-circles","tag-water-south","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ring_brodgar.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ring_brodgar.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}